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Lindsey Vonn of the US competes in the super G run in the women's super combined World Cup ski race in Are, Sweden. Janerik Henriksson/AP

Pakistani firemen try to extinguish the fires of NATO tankers that militants attacked in the suburbs of Peshawar, Pakistan. The tankers were bringing fuel to NATO and US forces in Afghanistan. Mohammad Sajjad/AP

A woman uses a cell phone after climbing out of a vehicle that ended up on a guard rail in the median of Interstate 295 during a snow storm in Cumberland, Maine. Robert F. Bukaty/AP

Newlyweds Emma Howard and Chris Greenslade cheer in a group photo after their wedding just days after she was pulled from the rubble of the earthquake-devastated Pyne Gould Corporation in Christchurch, New Zealand. Tuesday's magnitude 6.3 temblor collapsed buildings and killed more than 100 people. Mark Baker/AP

A Bangladeshi fan, with Bangladesh's national flag and tiger painted on his face, looks on during their Cricket World Cup match against Ireland in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Royal Bengal Tiger is the national animal of Bangladesh. Themba Hadebe/AP

Archaeology and tourism students perform Friday prayers near a camel in front of the Giza pyramids in the outskirts of Cairo. The pyramids at Giza were one of the tourist sites that were reopened to the public for the first time after the recent uprising. The students will host a festival at the pyramids to encourage tourists to return to Egypt after the revolution. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Children perform a song at their kindergarten in Beijing. Vincent Thian/AP

Sotheby's technicians hold Guardi's Venice, A View of the Rialto Bridge, which will be auctioned on July 6, 2011. The painting is expected to sell for more than $32 million. Joel Ryan/AP

A child of a commuter sleeps in a hammock at a railway station in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Krishnendu Halder/Reuters

Palestinian stone throwers take cover behind a wall during clashes with Israeli security forces in the mostly Arab neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem. Baz Ratner/Reuters

An American Eagle jet can be seen through the snow and ice on the windows of Cleveland Hopkins Airport as a heavy snow storm hit the area and closed the airport in Cleveland. Amy Sancetta/AP

Marathon runner Joseph Tame, wearing the 'iRun' apparatus, stretches prior to a test run in Tokyo for Sunday's Tokyo Marathon. Tokyo-resident Tame, of Hereford, England, intends to run the Tokyo marathon with his self-made, mobile, social-media studio that is equipped with four iPhones, an iPad, two Android handsets, a weather center pinned on his helmet and a heart monitor with a GPS, to give viewers a real-time experience of the marathon on his website www.tm2011.com. Itsuo Inouye/AP

Serbia's Novak Djokovic serves the ball to Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic during their semifinal tennis match at the Dubai ATP Tennis Championships in the United Arab Emirates. Kamran Jebreili/AP

Anti-Qaddafi protesters chant slogans during a protest in rebel-held Benghazi, Libya. Protestors have filled a political void there with a coalition that is cleaning up, providing food, building defences, reassuring foreign oil firms and telling Tripoli it believes in one nation. After noon prayers, about 6,000 Benghazi residents voiced solidarity with Tripoli protesters and ruled out splitting the country, saying they wanted Libya united. Suhaib Salem/Reuters

A Japanese woman who lives in Israel holds fake flowers during an annual Japanese cherry-blossom festival at the botanical gardens in Jerusalem. Baz Ratner/Reuters

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari is escorted to his initial court appearance at the Mahon Federal Building in Lubbock, Texas. Aldawsari, a college student from Saudi Arabia, is accused of buying chemicals online as part of a plan to blow up key US targets including the home of former President George W. Bush. Aldawsari was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Zach Long/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal/AP

A visitor looks at artwork by British artist Anthony Cragg during a new exhibition at the museum Kueppersmuehle in Duisburg, western Germany. Cragg, born in Liverpool, is professor and director of the internationally-renowned Arts Academy Dusseldorf. Martin Meissner/AP

His Majesty XIX, King Banjo Gelderman, (l.), and Her Majesty XIX, Queen Fergie Barclay-Curtis, the newly-coronated King and Queen of the Krewe of Barkus parade, receive a champagne toast at Galatoire's Restaurant in New Orleans. The parade, a play on the Krewe of Bacchus, in which dog owners dress up their pets and parade through the French Quarter, runs this Sunday. Gerald Herbert/AP

One of two 8-foot-tall Oscar statues is delivered to The Carlyle Hotel for the Official New York Oscar Night Party in New York. The 83rd annual Academy Awards will be held on Sunday. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

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Since assuming the mostly ceremonial post of president in July, Reuven Rivlin has emerged as the highest-ranking Israeli advocate for Arab rights during one of the worst periods of Jewish-Arab tensions.